Mayor Mamdani says he’s taking a vacation upstate this week, but he won’t say exactly where.<\/p>\n
That’s renewed a longtime conversation among New Yorkers over exactly which parts of New York are considered “upstate” and which aren’t.<\/p>\n
Some say anything above the five boroughs is upstate. Others don’t think Westchester County should count.<\/p>\n
Still more say you need to get further North, into Poughkeepsie or even Albany before you’re actually upstate.<\/p>\n
Do you need to be all the way up by Lake Placid?<\/p>\n
And what about Buffalo in Western New York? Is that considered upstate, or is that another category?<\/p>\n
Jonah Rosenberg, president of the New York Map Society, sat down with Erin Billups for a discussion on this contentious topic.<\/p>\n
Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani says he’s taking a vacation upstate this week, but he won’t say exactly where. That’s renewed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25,98,100,99,54129,9,24,12,63,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-322999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-erin-billups-national-health-reporter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}